Bad writers go on strike, late night talk is doomed
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UPDATED: Friday, September 19, 2025 08:50
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Creative Disruption: Striking screenwriters fearful ChatGPT could write next blockbuster script
I wanted to check the article for the most relavent point before commenting and I was happy to see they at least put it in there:
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AI chatbots, screenwriters say, could potentially be used to spit out a rough first draft with a few simple prompts (“a heist movie set in Beijing”). Writers would then be hired, at a lower pay rate, to punch it up.
Screenplays could also be slyly generated in the style of known writers. What about a comedy in the voice of Nora Ephron? Or a gangster film that sounds like Mario Puzo? You won’t get anything close to “Casablanca” but the barest bones of a bad Liam Neeson thriller is not out of the question.
The WGA’s basic agreement defines a writer as a “person” and only a human’s work can be copyrighted. But even though no one’s about to see a “By AI” writers credit at the beginning a movie, there are myriad ways that regenerative AI could be used to craft outlines, fill in scenes and mock up drafts.
Yes, AI is currently incapable of writing anything that a great human writer could make at this point in time, but eventually I believe it will happen.
I don't blame them for being scared.
For most of the rest of the working world, this has already happened. Whether it be automation in factories and farm work displacing the workforce once needed to do things by hand, or the ever-increasingly impressive computer technology that has displaced even the need to send work overseas, you'd be hard-pressed to find any profession that hasn't been severely downsized because of technology. Hell... even freakin' LAWYERS are scared right now.
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“We’re not totally against AI,” says Michael Winship, president of the WGA East and a news and documentary writer. “There are ways it can be useful. But too many people are using it against us and using it to create mediocrity. They’re also in violation of copyright. They’re also plagiarizing.”
I'd tell the writers to just Get Gud and stop focusing on IDPol, but the simple fact of the matter is that most of the writers employed by Hollywood today are not good at their craft and will never be capable of getting good at it.
I mean, the nerve of this writer complaining that AI is culpable of copyright violations when nearly everything that comes out today is derivative of an older and greater work of art with its only "virtue" being some sort of gender/race/sexuality swap that allows them to blame the audience for being bigots when it fails.
And it's probably too late to put the shit back in the horse. Why go to the trouble and expense of finding and hiring actual talent after laying off all of these talent-less people who were only hired because they ticked boxes when they can just have AI write the meat of everything while paying some people with even less talent to flesh the first draft out?
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Hollywood studios, actors agree to mediation as strike deadline looms
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hollywood-studios-actors-union-call-m
ediator-try-avoid-strike-2023-07-12/
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The actors' union will strike alongside film and TV writers, and it could be a nightmare scenario for Hollywood
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/actors-poised-join-film-tv-221927886.html
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Actors doubt strike will have ‘Hollywood Ending’
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Former Love is Blind cast members are suing Netflix, and founded the Unscripted Cast Advocacy Network.
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Zack Whedon seems to be more active than Joss, so is Joss done?
I dont know if Joss will work again. I have not seen Joss do anything since the SJW movement turned on him
Avengers Age of Ultron directing then he tried to save 'Justice League' but his reshoots are Uncredited
He then made films on Abortionists, SJW BLM Antifa stuff and Planned Parenthood
Ayn Rand and the Sub-Humans
Joss Mr. Whedon
The writers' strike is over; here's how AI negotiations shook out
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/writers-strike-over-heres-ai-022622261
.html
Writers On Daytime Soaps Return To Work After Strike
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/writers-daytime-soaps-return-strik
e-230949450.html
but No Actors?
Hollywood actors to resume negotiations with studios next week as writers strike ends
https://www.kasu.org/arts-culture/2023-09-28/hollywood-actors-to-resum
e-negotiations-with-studios-next-week-as-writers-strike-ends
With the Hollywood writers strike over, actors will now get a shot at cutting their own deal with studios and streaming services
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It's been like 1 day since they've come back and we've heard that Kevin Smith's He-Man is getting a 2nd season, they're going to reboot The Office and Disney is going to make a live action remake of Bambi.
Is it too late to go back on strike?
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The Hollywood Strikes Stopped AI From Taking Your Job. But for How Long?
https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-saved-your-job-from-ai-2023-will
-it-last/
Hollywood execs warn AI steals jobs but can’t do job of true artists: ‘I want to work with human beings’
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hollywood-execs-warn-ai-steals-070
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Video game performers are on strike — and AI is the sticking point
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/1198912993/video-game
-performers-are-on-strike-and-ai-is-the-sticking-point
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Video game performers are on strike — and AI is the sticking point
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/1198912993/video-game
-performers-are-on-strike-and-ai-is-the-sticking-point
Bad timing. Bad, bad, timing.
Last year it would have been a mistake to strike, but this year, especially the back-half of 2024 is just about the worst time they could have gone on strike in the last decade. For game developers, that even includes the very bottom of the Covid debacle, since video game companies were doing gangbusters when 30% of the country was forced to stay at home and all that free money was being pumped into the economy.
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